elegiac

adjectives

resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
"an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
pertains to
expressing sorrow often for something past
"an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
is similar to
experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
"sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13